On the design of cost functions for unit-selection speech synthesis

EUROSPEECH 2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 289-292

  Díaz, Francisco Campillo ^a   Banga, Eduardo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; SPEECH; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

HUMAN PERCEPTION; KEYPOINTS; SPEECH SEGMENTS; SPEECH SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC SPEECH; TARGET COST; UNIT SELECTION; UNIT-SELECTION SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 85009179791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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